{"id":18,"date":"2026-10-27T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/2026\/10\/27\/sample-what-makes-a-good-opinion-column\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:46:08","slug":"sample-what-makes-a-good-opinion-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/2026\/10\/27\/sample-what-makes-a-good-opinion-column\/","title":{"rendered":"Sample: What makes a good opinion column"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An opinion column is not a news story with adjectives. It is an argument, and it should be built like one.<\/p>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The shape of a column<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>One clear claim in the first paragraph.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Two or three reasons, each with evidence.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>The best case against you, answered fairly.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Label opinion clearly so readers always know what they are reading.<\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-muted-color has-text-color has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Sample content that ships with the starter site. Edit or delete it and write your own.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sample column about how to build an argument that readers can follow and challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.themesation.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}